UNESCO Research Outline

• Review Developing an Outline at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_outlin.html. Follow the instructions when developing your outline. • Approach this project from the perspective of someone searching for funding to support preservation programs. • Develop an outline identifying the ecological uniqueness of your chosen property in terms of plant and animal life, and address the following: o What human intrusions threaten the area? o What protections exist to protect and preserve the area? o What efforts have been made to further this preservation? o What additional measures to insure the preservation of the property would you propose? o What will be lost if intrusi... click for more

Metabolic Processes in cytoplasm and mitochondrion.

1. Aspects of the carbohydrate, amino acid and fatty acid metabolic processes we have considered have steps that occur in the cytoplasm and the mitochondrion or other cellular organelles. What are these biochemical pathways and what metabolic regulatory purpose is served by having parts of the processes performed in different cellular compartments?

How have transposable elements contributed to the evolution of the eukaryote genome?

How have transposable elements contributed to the evolution of the eukaryote genome? Discuss the different types of pseudogenes found in eukaryote genomes. Discuss the phenomenon of gene and genome duplications and how they have contributed to the evolution of the eukaryote genome. What fates can befall the products of gene duplication? (You can use the globin gene cluster as an example.) Discuss the proposition that exon shuffling and alternate splicing provide a means for generating diversity in protein structure.

Hemophilia

Excluding Queen Victoria's Family Consider the other European families affected by the hemophilia gene. If you were a member of one of these families, what would be some implications? If hemophilia had been transmitted as a recessive trait, rather than an X-linked one, what would have been the implications for the European aristocracy? Why are there so many more male than female hemophiliacs?

Mendel on Patterns of Inheritance

How did Mendel's approach to answering scientific questions differ from that of his contemporaries? How did his novel approach contribute to his success in describing how traits are inherited? What advantages did he enjoy by choosing to study the garden pea?